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Longer Synopsis: X or Y or Z is an entirely online-sourced documentary film that collages user-generated stock footage and overlays it with experiences by multiracial people dealing with issues such as tokenism, racial imposter syndrome, and cultural appropriation. One question among others the work poses is our group membership - either self-categorised or chosen by others - considered to be more important in deciding who we are than our own agency as individuals? Taking as its starting point the recurrent matter of who has the right to tell someone else's story and who has control over one's image, my work X or Y or Z investigates different points of view and invites you to examine your own feelings, thoughts, and experiences in relation to those of others. In these divisive times with online echo chambers, disinformation, and algorithmic biases, social awareness is more crucial than ever.
Country: Netherlands
Webpage: https://mirelleborra.com
Mirelle Borra’s interest in urgent global subjects merges with her keen sense of aesthetic to create thought-provoking work. Using moving image, she engages with social and political topics to re-frame these matters in new ways. Mirelle seeks to examine structures of representation through a transnational perspective while staying in constant dialog with the context from which the work is derived. The main focus of her practice is where the personal and the political intersect. Her work has shown internationally in film festivals and exhibitions, including the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (DE), 14th LICHTER Art Award, Frankfurt (DE), 36th Filmfest Dresden (DE), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2023/24, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2023 (DE), 22nd Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (CH), 20th Millennium Docs Against Gravity (PL), 20th London Short Film Festival (UK), 29th Sheffield DocFest (UK), 19th Vienna Shorts Film Festival (AT), 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE), 28th International Short Film Week Regensburg (DE), 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), 3rd FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin (DE), 39th Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT), 3rd Screen City Biennial, Stavanger (NO) and the 7th Berlin Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (DE) among others. In 2017, she founded the online platform 6x6 Project which is dedicated to the dissemination of artists’ moving image works, and to create an ever-growing network among peers. Mirelle was born in the Netherlands, and after living in New York City for many years, she is currently based in Berlin.
X or Y or Z is an entirely online-sourced documentary film that collages user-generated stock...
